Her Harvest, Our Future is an ambitious, radical initiative that tackles the crisis of poverty by improving nutrition and food security across borders and partners in Southern Africa. Our goal is to stimulate lasting changes in 10 million people’s lives by 2020. So far we have achieved 3.6 million towards this target. In this, our second annual report, we will present our achievements across six impact areas. We will explain how we are achieving this change by supporting learning, improving quality and influencing donors and governments to ensure that women small scale farmers benefit from all our investments.
Our programs increase incomes 175%, savings 153%, and entrepreneur business sales 15%. Learn more about our impact areas, including economic benefits and social outcomes for women, the ripple to her family and community, and the sustainable local market systemic changes. Read More
CARE’s integrative and gender transformative approach to increased market systems engagement puts small-scale women producers and firms at the center. Push interventions support and develop approaches that strengthen small-scale producers’ capacity to engage effectively with markets, while pull strategies facilitate the development of market systems in a manner that expands the diversity and quality of opportunities accessible to the ultra poor to engage more successfully in the local economy. This brief demonstrates multiple examples of CARE's pull intervention approach. Read More
She Heals the World is a CARE initiative to support and enable frontline community health workers (FCHWs) around the world through innovative and complimentary programs and advocacy efforts. Read more here about who FCHWs are, why they are important, and how CARE is helping them, especially women, become empowered, valued, and prioritized. Read More